Police have confirmed that the device attached to terrified Australian schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver was not a bomb, just a tremendously elaborate hoax. The device, attached to the girl by a masked intruder in her parent’s home, “gave the appearance of a legitimate improvised explosive device.”
Said Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch in an interview with ABC Radio:
“There were some instructions left by the offender at the scene and those instructions will provide us with further lines for inquiry
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Those instructions also limited us somewhat last night in how quickly we could proceed.”
It took authorities ten hours to remove the not-a-bomb. No clear motive for the event has been established at this time.
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